My BLOG about my journey into the invisible world of ultraviolet UV photography, simulated bee, butterfly and animal vision photography and the special lenses, filters and lighting needed to make it work - also in HD video + 3D stereo.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Today shots using that decorative flower, a Zinnia haageana - Mexican Zinnia in reflected ultraviolet photography using my "work horse" UV filter, the Baader-U and a UV/IR Cut filter for the visible light shots as well as my XBV filters for simulated bee and butterfly vision. Lens was my CERCO 94mm quartz flourite lens. Light source was Xenon flash. All shots were done at about f4.1 (fully open).

Since my readers are meanwhile used to the colors my different filters make, I leave it today to the reader to decode those ....

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Mexican Zinnia flowers have a very specific UV pattern as this last picture clearly shows (reflected UV using Baader-U filter). Their petals are very UV dark on the middle and bottom, but their petal tips are very UV bright, reaching much deeper into UV as any other flower I know (< 345nm), and some like this one here even shows different UV reflections on underside and upperside of their petals - and all this gets nicely visible in this presentation.

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This is my blog about my film and photographic work in 3D, ultraviolet UV, infrared IR and fluorescence using special lenses and equipment. All text and images carry my copyright and I do not allow to link to or copy / download from my site or any parts thereof without my prior permission.
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